New York: Massive Power Outage In Midtown, Times Square, Other Sections Of Manhattan, Thousands Affected
July 13th, 2019—
Update: ConEd Restoring Power, No Cause of Outage Given
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Via: CBSNY:
A large power outage has struck Midtown, Times Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan.
CBS2 began to hear reports that that all restaurants had gone dark in Hell’s Kitchen around 7 p.m. Saturday evening.
There are also no working street lights in those affected sections of the city.
According to the Con Edison website, over 45,000 customers have lost power throughout the city as of 9 p.m.
The FDNY reports that they are receiving calls from residents without power in the West 40s all the way north to 72nd Street and from Fifth Avenue west to the Hudson River.
